Ming hongwu Longquan celadon green glaze carving peony lines okho spring bottle

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sotheby’s Hong Kong on November 29, 1976, no. 452

Jack Chia couple collection sotheby’s Hong Kong on November 5, 1996, no. 635

related information of this product okho spring bottle, enamel, jade ware, clear and elegant proportion comely, ventral row carved peony grains, lush foliage and dotted with a few flowers bloom peony, the overall shape both skills and innovation, honesty is the excellent work of longquan celadon.
hongwu period porcelain making standard specification, respectively in longquan, jingdezhen kiln, in accordance with the fire, so both the artifacts made by people who share the same pattern is. Even so, jingdezhen porcelain manufacture is given priority to with draw act the role ofing, easy system complex patterns, longquan artisan work to carve a ghost, is more difficult. Such as system of grain incredibly, the more capability skilled craftsmen, unique survivor, Fang Chengjia. In this case, the same blue and white and decorative pattern visible at the same time youligong okho spring bottle, but into this product, deeply shallow, ring, light and shade are, in effect stereo, grain nature, Mosaic clever distinct, stretch freely, performance is better.

such okho spring bottle, broadly popular, while at the same time, domestic and overseas markets, the act the role of grain appearance each different, until the fifteenth century, is still the best-selling product.

visible a longquan bottles similar example, firing for the palace, the national Palace Museum in Taipei, existing record Yu Caimei Finn, “green – Ming dynasty longquan celadon celadon”, Taipei, 2009, no. 52, books will be compared with two unearthed okho spring bottle, the first tomb unearthed in zhang yun, JiHongWu 28 years; The second grain slightly, Jane found in anhui at pingkiang Chen Wen tomb, ji in the twelfth year of yongle, with see some similar cases, no. 51 and 53 to 58.

zhejiang longquan celadon unearthed some similar okho spring bottle, may refer to two prosthesis and recorded in Ye Ying pretty and HuaYu farming, “big discovery: the housetops states longquan kilns”, hangzhou, 2005, 102 and 110, with the book publication record also pieces of similar device, but carved ornamentation, pp. 112-116.

the Ottoman court like longquan, see a hidden okho spring bottle, act the role of tie up lotus flower pattern, with silver inlaid treasure, after recording Yu Kangrui jun, the Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul “, London, 1986, volume 1, no. 223. In Alexander and Barlow Collection class of cases, exhibition and recorded “The Barlow Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades”, university of Sussex, Brighton, 1997, no. 43.

the Palace Museum in Beijing is the same act the role of blue and white and youligong okho spring bottle, attached to the Palace Museum hidden treasures collected, blue and white youligong (a), Hong Kong, 2000, 14, chart with book see also painted peony grains class example, chart in 196 and 197; Chart and the draw lotus lines, 198. In addition, the Philadelphia museum of art was also a blue and white case, storage In Margaret Medley, “Yuan Porcelain and Stoneware”, London, 1974, 51 b Chart.

the blue and white and see youligong okho spring bottle neck ACTS the role of ruyi yuntou, visible a youligong red example, xu exhibition hall of old.tibet, after sale sotheby’s ‘s In London on June 7, 1994, no. 331.